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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2003 iii Paper 29 1 a Solution by
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Write . The conditional expectation is an contraction by the conditional Jensen inequality, so are square-integrable. The defining integral identity for conditional expectation, first with bounded measurable truncations of and then with their limit, givesFor clarity, if , then , and the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality permits the limit . Expanding the square now proves the equality case for conditional second moments:A nonnegative random variable of zero expected value vanishes almost surely. Therefore
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